Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic, horrific as it's been, has been reasonably kind to the worlds of sustainable business and climate tech. There's enough progress to turn even the most hardbitten sustainability skeptic optimistic. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 11, 2023

Climate change and resource sustainability are increasingly financially material for a number of sectors and publicly-traded companies. While technological progress on #1 is well documented, progress on #2 is just as important to sustainable supply chain solutions. Excitingly, the combination of EO and AI are fueling progress on both.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Credit: Pixabay.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The scale of agri-food giants’ influence and greenwash efforts surrounding the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit , held yesterday in New York City, has raised concern among sustainable farming experts. Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

A fresh analysis of 48 countries representing 90 per cent of the world's economy released yesterday by the insurance giant forecasts that based on current trajectories climate change will result in significant negative economic impacts by 2050, with Asian economies set to be the hardest hit by the worsening effects of rising temperatures.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day. Earth Day in 2020.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

The current crisis should support and accelerate many trends and themes integral to sustainability, writes Liontrust's Peter Michaelis. We believe the Covid-19 pandemic will result in changes to how society behaves and ultimately ease the transition to a more sustainable world.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. In the past, peats and bogs have been drained to increase cropping areas, but this damages peatlands and reduces their capacity to retain water and store carbon. NFM benefits.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Quantifying natural capital and embedding these values in state and corporate activities would, it follows, lead to more sustainable decision-making. Ultimately, it is likely to save money and enhance resilience. There is also supplemental guidance on finance, biodiversity and food systems.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Renewables procurement, carbon credits, materials sourcing and supply chains, public advocacy, employee and consumer engagement, and nature protection were all covered in a wide-ranging conversation, which dove into the latest guidance from WWF on how companies can move beyond simply setting a net zero target.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Following a public consultation which concluded earlier this year, the government said it would start to remove peat-based compost from sale in shops within two years in order to support its climate and biodiversity goals, including its target to restore 35,000 hectares of peatlands by 2025.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

As such the Strategy is a deliberately narrow response to Dimbleby's independent review and is designed to focus on "longer-term measures to support a resilient, healthier, and more sustainable food system that is affordable to all" rather than short term measures to tackle rising food prices.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.” The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

The features of a sustainable food management system. Sustainable food management is a systematic approach that concentrates on reducing wasted food, supporting local communities and employees, and mitigating the environmental impact of operations over the complete life cycle of food items.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Net Zero and environmental sustainability are now a core part of the government's economic policy. A National Infrastructure Bank and Green Bonds could be steps forward, but without a guarantee they will provide sustained investment to decarbonise buildings, transport and industry, they are unlikely to do much to advance climate action.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The findings are sure to prompt renewed calls for more urgent action from global governments, businesses, and civil society to do everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of worsening cimate risks.

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Business Green

MAY 2, 2022

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative is poised to publish claims guidance for businesses hoping to tap credits to help reach net zero goals - Co-chair Rachel Kyte gives BusinessGreen a peek at what to expect. How do you create the rules for a brand new market? It is a question that occupies much of Rachel Kyte's time.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

One immediate way progressive food company leaders are doing this is by applying true cost accounting to their operations: assessing and measuring the negative impacts and positive benefits of their business practices and taking stock of their dependence on ecological and human resources.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

If I, a privileged member of society, am having such a difficult time managing finances and trying to be sustainable, how can we expect people from underprivileged backgrounds to be on this spectrum? The government also planned to fell 2,185 trees within Mumbai, in Aarey Colony, to make way for a new metro rail project.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.".

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 50 businesses and organisations from across the UK's farming, food, and retail sectors have today urged the government to accelerate and strengthen the delivery of its embattled, post-Brexit green farming subsidy programme so as to build a "productive, regenerative, and resilient food system into the future".

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, the Green Business Bureau wanted to help you understand your options for sustainability certification, and with that, learn how to become B Corp Certified. With over 500 initiatives to choose from – compared to B Labs 250 – GBB raises the bar in sustainability certification. What is B Corp?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The university boasts a robust branch of Engineers for a Sustainable World.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

One immediate way progressive food company leaders are doing this is by applying true cost accounting to their operations: assessing and measuring the negative impacts and positive benefits of their business practices and taking stock of their dependence on ecological and human resources.

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